Hour record for a fully faired recumbant is over 100kph, solo, on the flats. Granted, the operative word is 'fully faired'. That's a shell around a rider.
The point is, bike racing is a lot more complicated than going faster than anyone else alone in a straight line on the flats. Sprints, climbinb, break aways, team strategy all play a roll.
Actually, they do (allow recumbants). This was hashed out many times on rec.bicycles years ago. The fact is, recumbants aren't well suited to either climbing or sprinting. The specific UCI rules (at least in the early 90s when I was reading this stuff on rec.bicycles) only restricted wheelbase length, which would omit some longer recumbants, but not all.
Could be the rules changed when they decided that all hour record bikes after Mercx were not 'bikes', but even before that, pros weren't using recumbants.
"2) StorageTek rely upon support contracts to make their libraries profitable. If they allow other companies to support their hardware they will have to charge more for the hardware in the first place."
The same argument can be made for printer cartridges. We know they make a proffit on the cartridges, not the printer. There is the potential for the same thing to happen to anything we replacement/consumable parts.
Blank media, fuel (not going to happen, but it could). Want a new roll of toilet paper for your fancy new automatic toilet paper dispenser? Sorry, that uses a proprietary intelligent roll mechanism. Our brand only.
Fox is the extreme, sure. But I wouldn't consider all of your examples 'the other side'. I'm sure you do, but it's all a matter of POV. We'll never agree on what is 'middle of the road'. We'll probably only agree that Moore and Limbaugh are and the ends.
What I think set FOX appart are the consistent slant, and the loud proclamation of 'fair and balanced'. Other major networks move around on the scale depending on the show.
And as for 'fair and balanced', I think media bias is something we all have to judge for ourselves. Just because a media outlet says they're 'fair and balanced' doesn't mean anything. The trust comes from the content, not the ad.
And no, I'm not afraid of FOX. You're not afraid of Moore are you? You just don't agree with him, I assume.
There are some very good reasons to use free web mail.
1) Don't use your work account for personal use. 2) Use web mail to prevent viruses (if you're smart enough to not download attachments) 3) Easy access from anywhere, great for trips. 4) Throwaway for use that may collect spam.
Compensation is usually tied to your financial impact on the company. It's easy to see a sales person's impact, hence they have the potential to make more. It's harder to quantify the technology impact, especially in support areas, like sysadmin and netadmin.
In my company, the more brilliant people (not just technology) get paid lower to mid, and the dumbest people (and I don't use the term lightly, we all have our own strengths) get paid the most. They make commision on what they sell, and they're good at chatting people up over lunch or a round of golf.
If you hire people like him constantly, perhaps some general career advice? For what jobs do you seek that type? How do you recognize the type from a resume? I'm sure he's not the only one reading.
General question, does anyone put their MBTI on their resume?
I told him to work for himself. I had another thought though- I know a community college CS instructor like that. Teaching pays the bills, and gives him time to research/work on whatever he wants. Whenever he needs more money for something, he gets a contract for something. I think the key is building up a reputation to have enough people looking for you talents whenever YOU'RE interested in doing the work.
Advice from a 15-years-in-the-workforce-looking-back:
I have a very broad 'technology' skills set, but not enough 'years of paid experience' in any one area to put me past 'entry level'. The problem is that very few companies are trying to fill a job with that kind of description. They have a laundry list of things they want, and years for each one.
It doesn't matter how bright you are, if you don't fit into their pigeonhole, they'll pass you by.
Solution? I think be prepared to make your own career. Working for someone else, you'll be doing what they want. Consider establishing yourself as an independant consultant early on. Look for some short term contracts rather than long term commitments. Be a hired gun.
Hint: making financially risky career choices is a lot easier before you have dependents. When you have other mouths to feed, it gets a lot harder to give up a steady paycheck for a dream.
But how many Admins know how long a brute force attack would take and adjust their forced perioud accordingly? And how to they relate? Do you make your force perdiod 1/2 the brute force time?
That is, brute force takes worste case 180 days, so you force change after 90 to catch the average?
Is average good enough?
Nobody (ok, almost nobody) is actually doing this. Admins (and I'm one) force password because it's what they've been taught to do.
I do it because it makes my users feel better, and the only way I know to force good passwords is to run my own brute force. Not doing that- yet.
Before implementing any security measure, one should ask "Why?" What is the hard reason? (not just feel good).
When it comes to forced password changes, it's "Because the password may be compromised".
So the next question is, if it 'may' be compromised, then how long are you willing to live with it compromised?
And that is your password change rate. So, if you force password changes every 90 days, it means you're willing to live with passwords being compromised for 89 days.
So what, force them every day?
The real answer is that if you think your users' passwords are being compromised, then you need some other form of security. Forced password changes are changes for not reason.
They allow Mozilla, because it's 'Netscape'. It's the standard 'upgrade your browser' deal. They don't allow Opera, and I seem to remember trying Konquerer for the heck of it, not that I use it.
It's more than agent string though. I have two other online accounts which work fine with Opera.
I was unable to browse to anything, and doing my own troubleshooting, quickly determined that it was Verizon's DNS servers not responding. Things worked great by IP, but nslookup timed out.
So I called Verizon, and while waiting on hold, got the bright idea of using Verizon's business DNS servers (different pair of IPs). That worked.
I waited for the tech on the phone anyways, and explained what I had done.
Verizon: "In your browser, can you please enter http://www.verizon.net and tell me what you get?"
Me: "It works"
Verizon: "Um, so it sounds like you fixed the problem"
Me: "yeah"
Verizon: "I need to ask you one more thing, are the lights on your DSL modem lit?"
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Hour record for a fully faired recumbant is over 100kph, solo, on the flats. Granted, the operative word is 'fully faired'. That's a shell around a rider.
The point is, bike racing is a lot more complicated than going faster than anyone else alone in a straight line on the flats. Sprints, climbinb, break aways, team strategy all play a roll.
Actually, they do (allow recumbants). This was hashed out many times on rec.bicycles years ago. The fact is, recumbants aren't well suited to either climbing or sprinting. The specific UCI rules (at least in the early 90s when I was reading this stuff on rec.bicycles) only restricted wheelbase length, which would omit some longer recumbants, but not all.
Could be the rules changed when they decided that all hour record bikes after Mercx were not 'bikes', but even before that, pros weren't using recumbants.
"2) StorageTek rely upon support contracts to make their libraries profitable. If they allow other companies to support their hardware they will have to charge more for the hardware in the first place."
The same argument can be made for printer cartridges. We know they make a proffit on the cartridges, not the printer. There is the potential for the same thing to happen to anything we replacement/consumable parts.
Blank media, fuel (not going to happen, but it could). Want a new roll of toilet paper for your fancy new automatic toilet paper dispenser? Sorry, that uses a proprietary intelligent roll mechanism. Our brand only.
It's "heros" not "hero's". Why do people insist on using an apostrophe before an s indicating plurality, no possesion?
"The radical right and left are both very wrong and very dangerous."
:-)
and on that we agree
It was a big deal when we (w/UN) bombed Milosovic in 2000, because Clinton never got Congressional approval.
Fox is the extreme, sure. But I wouldn't consider all of your examples 'the other side'. I'm sure you do, but it's all a matter of POV. We'll never agree on what is 'middle of the road'. We'll probably only agree that Moore and Limbaugh are and the ends.
What I think set FOX appart are the consistent slant, and the loud proclamation of 'fair and balanced'. Other major networks move around on the scale depending on the show.
And as for 'fair and balanced', I think media bias is something we all have to judge for ourselves. Just because a media outlet says they're 'fair and balanced' doesn't mean anything. The trust comes from the content, not the ad.
And no, I'm not afraid of FOX. You're not afraid of Moore are you? You just don't agree with him, I assume.
The 'Big Fat' is a play on :Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations" by Al Franken.
I don't think it's the mistakes we're worried about. It's the intentional mis-representations that bother me.
Any show that uses millitary eqiupment has to have its script approved by the millitary. Try watching J.A.G. with that in mind.
And not all that different from anything on Fox, or from Limbaugh...
I don't like the way Moore 'bends' the truth. I found a bunch of things wrong with his portrait of Canada in 'Bowling'.
And, two wrongs don't make a right (but three lefts do)
But, c'mon, everyong trying to make a political point picks and chooses the facts they want to present, and bends those they do.
There are some very good reasons to use free web mail.
1) Don't use your work account for personal use.
2) Use web mail to prevent viruses (if you're smart enough to not download attachments)
3) Easy access from anywhere, great for trips.
4) Throwaway for use that may collect spam.
Yes, with Opera. Works with IE. Probably also with Mozilla, or else everyone on /. would be screaming.
You're wife needs to hire someone who has learned a few other things on previous jobs. Anyone with good coding skills can learn a new language.
99% of what I do, I learned on the job, and I'm not alone.
99% of job postings require 2 years prior experience in some very specific areas.
Even with 15 years of widely varied tech experience I face the Catch-22 all the time.
Compensation is usually tied to your financial impact on the company. It's easy to see a sales person's impact, hence they have the potential to make more. It's harder to quantify the technology impact, especially in support areas, like sysadmin and netadmin.
In my company, the more brilliant people (not just technology) get paid lower to mid, and the dumbest people (and I don't use the term lightly, we all have our own strengths) get paid the most. They make commision on what they sell, and they're good at chatting people up over lunch or a round of golf.
Thems the breaks.
> You will not graduate from a major university.
Unless of course you stubornly keep at it, and manage to keep your grades barely above water, in which case it make take 8 or 9 or 10 years.
If you hire people like him constantly, perhaps some general career advice? For what jobs do you seek that type? How do you recognize the type from a resume? I'm sure he's not the only one reading.
General question, does anyone put their MBTI on their resume?
I told him to work for himself. I had another thought though- I know a community college CS instructor like that. Teaching pays the bills, and gives him time to research/work on whatever he wants. Whenever he needs more money for something, he gets a contract for something. I think the key is building up a reputation to have enough people looking for you talents whenever YOU'RE interested in doing the work.
Advice from a 15-years-in-the-workforce-looking-back:
I have a very broad 'technology' skills set, but not enough 'years of paid experience' in any one area to put me past 'entry level'. The problem is that very few companies are trying to fill a job with that kind of description. They have a laundry list of things they want, and years for each one.
It doesn't matter how bright you are, if you don't fit into their pigeonhole, they'll pass you by.
Solution? I think be prepared to make your own career. Working for someone else, you'll be doing what they want. Consider establishing yourself as an independant consultant early on. Look for some short term contracts rather than long term commitments. Be a hired gun.
Hint: making financially risky career choices is a lot easier before you have dependents. When you have other mouths to feed, it gets a lot harder to give up a steady paycheck for a dream.
Of course emacs is larger and more complex than linux. It has to be, with its linux kernel emulation mode.
But how many Admins know how long a brute force attack would take and adjust their forced perioud accordingly? And how to they relate? Do you make your force perdiod 1/2 the brute force time?
That is, brute force takes worste case 180 days, so you force change after 90 to catch the average?
Is average good enough?
Nobody (ok, almost nobody) is actually doing this. Admins (and I'm one) force password because it's what they've been taught to do.
I do it because it makes my users feel better, and the only way I know to force good passwords is to run my own brute force. Not doing that- yet.
Before implementing any security measure, one should ask "Why?" What is the hard reason? (not just feel good).
When it comes to forced password changes, it's "Because the password may be compromised".
So the next question is, if it 'may' be compromised, then how long are you willing to live with it compromised?
And that is your password change rate. So, if you force password changes every 90 days, it means you're willing to live with passwords being compromised for 89 days.
So what, force them every day?
The real answer is that if you think your users' passwords are being compromised, then you need some other form of security. Forced password changes are changes for not reason.
If only we could get the RIAA to go after the idiots in the shaking cars- public performance.
They allow Mozilla, because it's 'Netscape'. It's the standard 'upgrade your browser' deal. They don't allow Opera, and I seem to remember trying Konquerer for the heck of it, not that I use it.
It's more than agent string though. I have two other online accounts which work fine with Opera.
I was unable to browse to anything, and doing my own troubleshooting, quickly determined that it was Verizon's DNS servers not responding. Things worked great by IP, but nslookup timed out.
So I called Verizon, and while waiting on hold, got the bright idea of using Verizon's business DNS servers (different pair of IPs). That worked.
I waited for the tech on the phone anyways, and explained what I had done.
Verizon: "In your browser, can you please enter http://www.verizon.net and tell me what you get?"
Me: "It works"
Verizon: "Um, so it sounds like you fixed the
problem"
Me: "yeah"
Verizon: "I need to ask you one more thing, are the lights on your DSL modem lit?"
Me: "Ah, yeah".
(I probably should have said "No")